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“There Was Little Evidence Anybody Was Ever Going To Care”: How Steve Martin Overcame Doubters To Reach Comedy Heights – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
Steve Martin documentary director Morgan Neville talks about how his subject overcame doubters to reach comedy heights.
Part 1 of the documentary, subtitled “Then,” is devoted to Martin’s upbringing, his fraught relationship with an emotionally distant father and Steve’s slow ascent to stand-up stardom. Fame was a long time coming; he patiently waited for audiences to “get” his comedy – pointless, silly bits with “happy feet” and an arrow through the head. “But that perseverance is the thing that made him him, that a lot of other very talented filmmakers and comedians and everybody else — they can’t survive that decade, or in Steve’s case, almost 15 years of struggling before he finally starts to connect with the culture.”
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